HOW DID I DO IT?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI have saved my diaries from 2004 up until the present day, and I sort of wish I had been saving them from further back. I would love to see how I notated a specific day in the 1990s where I did seven gigs in one day. It was 20 years ago this month, February […]
15 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn what may have been my last dive into a truly foreign culture, I was booked for two weeks in the last week of January 2009, in Johannesburg, South Africa. This was an education for me since I was American and thus had very little idea of all that had gone down there over the […]
PARTYING LIKE IT WAS 1999, BECAUSE IT WAS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedTomorrow, to ring in the New Year, Maggie and I will be at home dog-sitting while her daughter is away, and for the most part I’m relieved to not be dealing with the rigamarole that New Year’s gigs can be. I’ve detailed my past history with those gigs, good and bad, and ultimately the only […]
SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LONELY CHRISTMAS, BUT WASN’T
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA couple Christmases ago, I pissed and moaned about the loneliest Christmas I’d ever spent, which is now exactly 50 years into my past, in Anchorage, Alaska. I talked about how it was the first time I had been away from family at Christmas, and there would not be another such Holiday season until 1999. […]
HOW TO GET TIRED OF YOUR ACT IN A SINGLE DAY
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedDoing the same 20 minutes eight times in one day is one way. And somewhere around this day 30 years ago, that is what I had to do. The gig was in downtown San Diego, and was a fairly large indoor venue overlooking a street fair. I don’t remember if it was an annual event, […]
HALLOWE’EN MEMORIES
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt’s amazing to think that 60+ years ago, when I was in primary school, on Hallow’en I could go trick or treating, be out for 2-3 hours, come back with a shopping bag full of assorted candies, and not be worried about any consequences. This was before any stories emerged of sickos putting razor blades […]
END OF AN ERA
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedYesterday I got the news I was expecting to get, which was that my eight-year run as vinyl DJ at The King’s Head in Crouch End was done. Granted, because of the Pandemic, there was a gap from March 2020 to New Years Eve 2022 that got in the way. Even so, my actual return […]
SOMEHOW I SURVIVED
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis past weekend saw the annual Reading and Leeds Music Festivals, which always features a comedy tent where the most prominent comics as well as up-and-comers get 30 minutes to prove themselves. I had a look at this year’s lineup, and there was absolutely no one whose name I recognised. That may be because the […]
REMEMBERING PAUL REUBENS (PART 2)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedLast night, at my weekly pub quiz, I asked this question: “The American comedian/actor Paul Reubens, who passed away Sunday at the age of 70, was better known for what character that he portrayed on stage, television and film?” Only one team (out of 6) got the correct answer. Having been in UK for over […]
REMEMBERING PAUL REUBENS (PART 1)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedMy association with Paul Reubens, best known for his character Pee Wee Herman, actually began a year before Ruby and I first met him. In May of 1978, our clever manager Bob Lacey, seeing a window of opportunity to coattail with a certain star of the future, offered to Robin Williams that Rick and Ruby […]
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